On 8/3/07, Norman Gray <norman(_at_)astro(_dot_)gla(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> wrote:
1. <p></p> (fully normalised form)
2. -> <p</p> (you didn't have to close tags if you were starting a
new one immediately)
3. -> <p</> (use the null end tag </> to close the most recently
started element)
4. -> <p/> (if you had redefined the NET string from '</' to '/').
...and <p/> was deemed to look adequately pretty (I might be
misremembering this slightly, but it was something very like that).
...and so the empty element was born?
Norman
[drifting down memory lane]
That's some great information Norman - thanks!
If only there was a pub quiz question on how the empty element syntax
came about... :)
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